baloney
baloney 英 [bəˈləʊni] 美 [bəˈloʊni]
n. 胡扯；熏肠；蠢货 int. 荒谬（表示怀疑的感叹词） vt. 对…胡扯
名词复数:baloneys
- Baloney is nonsense. When someone says something completely ridiculous, call it a bunch of baloney. If your friend tells you a unicorn on roller skates ate the last cookie, tell her she’s full of baloney!
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- n. 胡扯；熏肠；蠢货
- int. 荒谬（表示怀疑的感叹词）
- vt. 对…胡扯
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1. There is so much pure medical baloney on the Web that unless you actually practice medicine, it's hard to recognize.
在网络上有如此多的医疗资讯纯粹是胡扯，除非你确实行医，否则很难辨认。
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2. LL: Let's just say if someone said to me "That Li Hua is a real party animal" - I'd say that is baloney!
一个是baloney, 意思是骗人的鬼话，胡扯。 李华学到的另一个常用语是party animal， 指的是特别喜欢参加社交聚会的人。
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3. A former Roman Catholic bishop of New York City, Fulton Sheen, once explained, "baloney is praise so thick it cannot be true. And blarney is praise so thin we like it."
一位纽约前罗马天主教的主教——富尔顿·谢恩曾经解释道：“吹嘘（baloney）赞美有余，实在不足，难以成真；奉承（blarney）赞美适度，虚实相应，使人喜欢。”
- baloney (n.) 1894 as a spelling variant of bologna sausage (q.v.), representing the popular pronunciation. As slang for "nonsense," 1922, American English (popularized 1930s by Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York; sometimes said to be one of the coinages of legendary "Variety" staffer Jack Conway), from earlier sense of "idiot" (by 1915), perhaps influenced by blarney, but usually regarded as being from the sausage, as a type traditionally made from odds and ends. It also was early 20c. ring slang for an inferior fighter.
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